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Location (town and country)
MANCHESTER, UK
Institution
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Discipline
MENTAL HEALTH
Job title
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Areas of interest and expertise
WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USER INVOLVEMENT IN RESEARCH
Reason for joining the mhhehub
SHARING INFORMATION AND IDEAS
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Innovative learning for sexual, reproductive and mental health - Workshop for female mental health service users- 19 April 2013

Posted on March 18, 2013 at 23:21 2 Comments

Dear Readers

At the Centre for Women's Mental Health in the University of Manchester, we are offering a FREE half day workshop for female mental health service users who wish to improve their knowledge about sexual and reproductive health matters

and their interaction with mental health. Participants will be introduced to an innovative online resource (…

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Innovative learning for sexual, reproductive and mental health

Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:30 2 Comments

Dear Readers

At the Centre for Women's Mental Health, Manchester University (where I am based), we are offering a 

FREE

 half day workshop for female mental 

health service users from the North West of England…
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Cartoon

Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:07 2 Comments

Hi, All 

Came across a brilliant (i think) cartoon in Community Care about the 'Big Society'. 

attaching here and hope it makes you smile...

Dina 

Academic psychiatry and its problems...

Posted on January 2, 2013 at 17:13 0 Comments

Hi, All 

i came across an interesting article by Kleinman in the British Journal of Psychiatry that talks about academic psychiatry research and its need to achieve a rebalancing so as to take account of 'the human faces and the social crucibles of mental illness'. attaching the article here Kleinman_rebalancing%20academic%20psychiatry.pdf

Happy New Year to…

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At 16:20 on December 11, 2012, Jill Anderson said…

Welcome Dina!

At 21:01 on February 1, 2013, julie gosling said…
dear Dina - please will you join my group

MY MAD SPACE

I would like this to be a space for anyone who is using their lived experience of mental distress in their teaching - or would like to!! - (this could be service users -past/present, service avoiders, or 'slipped through the net' - and could involve appointed teaching staff as well as service-user educators)

I would like to explore many issues - including accessing critical student and colleague feedback, understanding the impact of sharing experience on both the giver and the receiver, supporting those people who want to 'come out' and name their madness within a teaching and learning setting and weighing up all the risks/opportunities/costs/benefits -

and I would like to give and receive support with others who share of themselves in a hugely personal way -

I would appreciate other potential group members helping me to define how this group might work and what its boundaries should be

please message me if you would prefer to discuss this in confidence

thank you - and love - Julie
At 7:06 on February 2, 2013, DINA POURSANIDOU said…

Hi, Julie

thank you for the message.

I use my lived experience of mental distress both in carrying out research and providing training - I work as a researcher at Manchester University, Centre for Women's Mental Health-so I have similar concerns to yours. Yes, I would love to join your group.

take care

dina

At 9:55 on February 2, 2013, julie gosling said…
Dear Dina - I am so happy to get your support - please just add onto my group and then perhaps we can start to discuss how it might operate in practice - as I very much hope it can be a challenging space in general while remaining a safe space for anyone who may be less able to share publicly
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At 11:24 on February 2, 2013, DINA POURSANIDOU said…

how do i join your group? how does it work?

At 17:55 on February 2, 2013, julie gosling said…
DEAR DINA
THANKS AND WELCOME INTO MY MAD SPACE WHICH I HOPE WILL BE A LIMINAL EXPERIENCE FOR US ALL - HAVE YOU ANY IDEAS FOR HOW WE SHOULD START TO THINK ABOUT ITS PROCESSES? - FOR EXAMPLE - HOW TO SUPPORT AND INVOLVE ANYONE WHO MIGHT FEEL LESS SAFE ABOUT DISCLOSING THEMSELVES AS A PERSON WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE IN A GROUP WHOSE MEMBERSHIP IS VISIBLE TO OTHERS ON A WIDER SITE
At 0:19 on February 3, 2013, julie gosling said…
dear dina - yes i know asylum well and i love your posts - i have read many of then and feel i knew you before we met - thank you for your passion and your insight
At 18:18 on February 3, 2013, DINA POURSANIDOU said…

Hi, Julie

thank you for your kind words about my blog.

as regards supporting people who may feel less safe around disclosure, I think that people may start being involved in the Mad Space without necessarily declaring their lived experience to start with...and hopefully they may feel safe to disclose or not disclose as time goes by...I am not sure... this is just a thought...i will think about it more...take care,dina

At 19:00 on February 4, 2013, julie gosling said…
thank you Dina - I think that membership of My Mad Space presumes a lived experience - which makes it a 'protected' space in a way - so the act of joining is in itself disclosure if you see what I mean
At 19:16 on February 4, 2013, DINA POURSANIDOU said…

Hi, Julie

thanks for this

if joining My Mad Space presumes lived experience of distress by definition, what about those people who are strong 'allies' of us mad without necessarily having lived experiences? what about the 'mad-positive' as an activist from Toronto calls them (ie having positive attitudes towards madness and the mad)?  what if they want to express an opinion on issues us mad are pre-occupied with? is there a danger that my  Mad Space could become exclusionary in this way? 

these are genuine information-seeking questions, Julie, I do not mean to be obnoxious :-))

thanks 

take care

dina 

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